Dark Matter Search Results from the PandaX-4T Commissioning Run

  • Yue Meng
  • , Zhou Wang
  • , Yi Tao
  • , Abdusalam Abdukerim
  • , Zihao Bo
  • , Wei Chen
  • , Xun Chen
  • , Yunhua Chen
  • , Chen Cheng
  • , Yunshan Cheng
  • , Xiangyi Cui
  • , Yingjie Fan
  • , Deqing Fang
  • , Changbo Fu
  • , Mengting Fu
  • , Lisheng Geng
  • , Karl Giboni
  • , Linhui Gu
  • , Xuyuan Guo
  • , Ke Han
  • Changda He, Jinrong He, Di Huang, Yanlin Huang, Zhou Huang, Ruquan Hou, Xiangdong Ji, Yonglin Ju, Chenxiang Li, Mingchuan Li, Shu Li, Shuaijie Li, Qing Lin, Jianglai Liu, Xiaoying Lu, Lingyin Luo, Wenbo Ma, Yugang Ma, Yajun Mao, Nasir Shaheed, Xuyang Ning, Ningchun Qi, Zhicheng Qian, Xiangxiang Ren, Changsong Shang, Guofang Shen, Lin Si, Wenliang Sun, Andi Tan, Anqing Wang, Meng Wang, Qiuhong Wang, Shaobo Wang, Siguang Wang, Wei Wang, Xiuli Wang, Mengmeng Wu, Weihao Wu, Jingkai Xia, Mengjiao Xiao, Xiang Xiao, Pengwei Xie, Binbin Yan, Xiyu Yan, Jijun Yang, Yong Yang, Chunxu Yu, Jumin Yuan, Ying Yuan, Dan Zhang, Minzhen Zhang, Peng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Zhao, Qibin Zheng, Jifang Zhou, Ning Zhou, Xiaopeng Zhou, Yong Zhou

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Abstract

We report the first dark matter search results using the commissioning data from PandaX-4T. Using a time projection chamber with 3.7 tonne of liquid xenon target and an exposure of 0.63 tonne·year, 1058 candidate events are identified within an approximate nuclear recoil energy window between 5 and 100 keV. No significant excess over background is observed. Our data set a stringent limit to the dark matter-nucleon spin-independent interactions, with a lowest excluded cross section (90% C.L.) of 3.8×10-47 cm2 at a dark matter mass of 40 GeV/c2.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number261802
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume127
Issue number26
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 24 2021
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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